Allure.com Relaunches With Heavy E-Commerce Component
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Women’s magazines have long recommended specific beauty products, and online-only publications like Lonny include buy links for featured pro… Read more »
Flipboard Kicks Off Its First Advertising Program With Condé Nast
Users who follow The New Yorker magazine through iPad social reader Flipboard will start noticing advertising as part of the mix. The ads, b… Read more »
Condé Nast And Adobe Try To Get A Handle On Digital Mag Metrics
While it may be exciting for advertisers to try out out an interactive ad in a digital magazine, at the end of the day, they just care about… Read more »
Some Mileage Yet In MeeGo? Intel Adds MeeGo Tablet Apps To Its App Store
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Yesterday’s news that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has finally launched a handset built on MeeGo was one vote in favor of the OS, and here’s another: I… Read more »
Comparing The Major Magazine Publishers’ App Portfolios
Magazine publishers are putting a lot of faith in apps, building development teams and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars (in some ca… Read more »
Hearst Opens App Lab, Plans A Dozen New Apps Over Next Six Months
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With nearly 100 apps already in circulation, including Zinio digital replicas of all its 14 magazines, Hearst plans to issue a dozen more ap… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 06-06-11
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» Penry Price to Leave Google (NSDQ: GOOG) for Startup Media6Degrees (AdAge)
» As Digital-Ad Techniques Proliferate,… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 06-03-11
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» Now that Groupon has filed for a $750 million IPO, it’s time to guess the next daily deal site to go public. (paidContent)
Industry Moves: Condé Nast Digital Director, Pace, ITN, Stardoll
– Condé Nast: Wired publisher Jamie Jouning is the magazine publisher’s latest UK digital director, in a restructure following the retirem… Read more »
Condé Nast Rolls Out iPad Subs For Wired, GQ; NY Mag Holds Off For Now
Condé Nast’s titles are continuing to roll out their subscription plans for the iPad following agreements between Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and ot… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 05-23-11
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» Sony (NYSE: SNE) to report $3.2 billion loss as it struggles with production disruptions, hacker attack (AP)
» 30,0… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 05-09-11
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» The New Yorker Leads Conde Nast’s iPad Subscription Push (paidContent)
» FCC Chairman Genachowski is drawing fire f… Read more »
Updated: The New Yorker Leads Conde Nast’s iPad Subscription Push
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Conde Nast takes an important step this week towards finding a rational tablet subscription plan, albeit one that includes a significant cut… Read more »
Conde Nast Tests The Water For Wired In Germany
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After launching UK and Italian editions of Wired magazine in 2009, Conde Nast is now considering a German edition. Read more »
Magazine Publishers Scramble To Streamline Their App Production
Magazine publishers are not only trying to pack more features and content into their apps — they’re also trying to design for an ever-growi… Read more »
Righthaven Sues Reporter For His Article About-A Righthaven Lawsuit
Sometimes it seems like Righthaven might run out of targets to sue for copyright infringement, but now it has tapped into a perhaps never-en… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 03-25-11
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» Condé Nast has brought back consultancy McKinsey & Co. Though this time it’s not to lay off waves of staffers, but to assess g… Read more »
Condé Nast UK To Invest More In iPad Apps
iPad magazine sales have often failed to live up to their early promise, but Condé Nast Digital Britain is nevertheless upping its investme… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 03-07-11
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» Condé Nast’s Glamour is creating an original reality series produced exclusively for the iPad that incorporates e-commerce. No… Read more »
Condé Nast Launching Digital Editions For Android
Condé Nast is prepping digital editions of The New Yorker and Wired magazines for Google’s Android 3.0 (aka Honeycomb) system this spring.… Read more »
Condé Nast’s Epicurious App Adds Pay Model To Mix
Just a week after Condé Nast’s iPad-only Gourmet Live added pay-to-download features within the app, the publisher’s two-year-old Epicuriou… Read more »
Yahoo’s Former M&A Chief Surfaces At Advance Publications
Andrew Siegel, the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) M&A chief who announced late last month that he was leaving, is now taking the top M&A job at Conde Na… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 12.03.10
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» So this is what prompted Google’s anti-piracy announcement: Viacom (NYSE: VIA) is ready to file its long-awaited appeal in its… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 12.01.10
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» Online media buying service AppNexus has been cut off from Google’s ad exchange after placing an ad that violated the company’s… Read more »
Next Issue Media’s Digital Newsstand Is Ready To Start Charging
It looks like Next Issue Media, the newspaper and magazine publishing JV, is finally ready to open its digital newsstand for business. The c… Read more »
Wired’s UK iPad Edition Debuts, Priced Between Print Copy And Print Sub
Wired magazine’s UK version has unveiled its debut iPad edition alongside its December print edition today.
Weighing in at a hefty 528Mb, Read more »
Reddit Co-Founder Slowe Leaves
Christopher Slowe, one of the three co-founders of Reddit who sold the site to Conde Nast four years ago and had been working as its manager… Read more »
Conde Nast CEO Chuck Townsend Explains The Latest Re-Org: Interview, Memo
The Conde Nast re-org that has been hovering for weeks has finally landed, with digital responsibility for brands going to the publishers, C… Read more »
Adobe Will Create Tools For All Condé Nast Digital Mags
Condé Nast will formally rely on Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) tools when it comes to crafting its digital magazine replicas, after dividing duties be… Read more »
Condé Nast Digital Shakeup Coming?
The ground beneath Condé Nast appears to be shifting again, as the publisher is preparing another reorg of its digital and print operations… Read more »
Mag Publishers Have A Short Window Before Indies Crash The iPad
Ashley Norris is CEO of branded content advisory Sutro Digital and director of Anorak Publishing and is currently planning an iPad annual ve… Read more »
Condé Nast Study Concludes iPad Is Not A Mobile Device (At Least Not Now)
There have been over 3.8 million downloads of Condé Nast apps on the iPad and iPhone since the publisher began rolling them out. Over the p… Read more »
Esquire Gets Animated For iPad App Debut
Esquire took its time, but it finally released its iPad mag app last night on iTunes. While the Hearst mag has been selling digital issues o… Read more »
Wired UK Will Test One-Off iPad Edition Before A Rolling Schedule
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Wired’s UK edition is about to follow its U.S. counterpart by publishing an iPad version.
But the edition will publish a single issue first… Read more »
Condé Nast Gets Deeper Into Selling Digital Content
Condé Nast is taking a bigger step toward creating more paid content Monday when it unveils its Golf Digest on Demand, a golf-instruction v… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09.29.10
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» In five years, 75 percent of display ads will be Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09.27.10
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» The New Yorker is launching on the iPad today and the pressure on Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) to provide a better solution for selling m… Read more »
Gourmet Live Hits The App Store; Epicurious Averages 50k Downloads Weekly
After the huge fanfare that greeted Condé Nast’s June preview of the defunct Gourmet magazine’s reincarnation as a free iPad app, the brand… Read more »
Condé Nast UK MD: Up To 40 Percent Of Sales Could Be On iPad
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By Mark Sweney: Nicholas Coleridge, the managing director of Condé Nast UK, has predicted that in the future as many as 40% of the publishe… Read more »
Yahoo Shine Editor Brandon Holley Exits, Returns To Condé Nast
Brandon Holley is leaving Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) after three years to return to the print magazine world as editor-in-chief of Condé Nast’s Luc… Read more »
